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An Attempt at Murder Prank Hanson Receive a Charge ol t"M-irom a Coward Fillmore has had another- exciting episode. In a a attempt last Saturday evening about eight o'clock to kill Frank K. Hanson, the man who has been accused of causing a number of .. fires In Fillmore the past two years, but has escaped conviction, and being a free man Insists upon coming back to Fillmore to live. By this Insistence be puts his life In Jeopardy as the coward-' ly attempt last Saturday proves. The attempt was made when Hanson i-stepped i-stepped to the back door of bis home to throw out some scraps from the supper table. As he stood clesrly revealed re-vealed In the light some one blazed away at him with a shot gun. The plate he held was shot out of his hand, the door, window and house for ten feet around was peppered with shot, and a number of them found lodgment In Hanson's body. He quickly retreated re-treated Into the bouse and closed the door. His aged father who lives with him summoned the neighbors, and the officers and a doctor was called In, and an examination was made. The doctor found that six duck shot had taken effect, one was above the right eye, one In the forehead, one In each arm, one In the breast and one In the leg. ' All were removed except the one above the eye which the doctor decided not to probe for at once. None of the wounds are dangerous as' the shots did not penetrate the flesh a great distance. dis-tance. The officers found that the party who did the shooting was In the back tot. -about sixty feet from the door and had rubbed out his tracks so they would not betray him. The shot was heard In tha business part of twon, five fcioc.s away, which leads to the t belief that both barrels were fired at . once. t ;: ' , ' ' , Later Hanson charged Page Vestal, j a cell-mate when they wee la the ' , county Jail with the; shooting. He wa fttwrti?MoC7'H;yjf) to come do wd town and svyaf ol complaint. The whereabouts of V??. v tal at the time of the shooting had V ' also been investigated, and It was V found that he had been at the home of the county clerk at the time. The officers are doing what they can to discover the would be murderer but up to thla time nothing special has been discovered. The public condemns con-demns the dastardly act. It Is said Hanson now has a guard. It is but recently when he had to be guarded. Things do change around some even In Fillmore.